After two years of project, Bosch Engineering and the Giantleap Consortium can publish details of our trailer-mounted fuel-cell system for battery buses. Continue reading “Giantleap’s Fuel-Cell System is Ready”
Category: Publications
Conference papers and presentations, public deliverables, anything Giantleap produced that can be placed on a Web site.
Interfaces for Hydrogen Range Extenders
One of the main features of the Giantleap project is the idea of using fuel cells to extend the range of battery buses. To do so, battery buses and range extenders must be equipped with standardised electrical, mechanical and communication interfaces. Continue reading “Interfaces for Hydrogen Range Extenders”
Full-Size Stacks to Integrate in the FC System
ElringKlinger delivered several stack modules in the Giantleap project for integration in the fuel-cell system and for bench testing. These modules are actually more than a stack of fuel cells, and include multiple sensors and an innovative passive recirculation system. Continue reading “Full-Size Stacks to Integrate in the FC System”
Diagnostics for automotive fuel cell systems
Different diagnostic methods (polarization curves, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, cyclic voltammetry, linear sweep voltammetry), which were performed at FESB on an already conditioned 50 cm2 (single) fuel cell provided by ElringKlinger are presented in this deliverable.
Have a closer look here and find out more about the methods and approaches that are examined for Giantleap.
Further diagnostic strategies to ensure the FC System Air Line (FCSAL) State-of-Health (SoH) monitoring were also developed based on data-driven diagnostic techniques. Guidelines for implementation of each strategy in the Giantleap project on data to be recorded on FCEB prototype from Bosch are provided.
Degradation mechanisms in automotive fuel cells
The degradation mechanisms of each component of the PEM fuel cell stack are presented in this public deliverable with a specific target to automotive fuel cells.
This major deliverable for the project, authored by Frano Barbir Continue reading “Degradation mechanisms in automotive fuel cells”
Report on Prognostic Algorithms
The Giantleap project publishes today one of its key deliverables: Model-based prognostic algorithm for PEM fuel cell systems, authored by Raffaele Petrone of the University of Franche-Comté. Continue reading “Report on Prognostic Algorithms”
Presentation at EERA seminar in Oslo
Giantleap was represented at the European Energy Research Alliance‘s seminar in Oslo, Norway, on October 30, 2017. Continue reading “Presentation at EERA seminar in Oslo”
Publication on Low-Frequency EIS Analysis
The Giantleap project congratulates their partner FESB with a successful publication in the Journal of Power Sources on the presence of inductive phenomena in the low-frequency region of electrochemical impedance spectra in PEM fuel cells. Continue reading “Publication on Low-Frequency EIS Analysis”
Giantleap experimental protocols
The Giantleap project releases today its documentation on experimental protocols for stacks and balance-of-plant components. Continue reading “Giantleap experimental protocols”
Giantleap Workshop @ VPPC2017
We are pleased to invite you to the mid-term workshop of Giantleap that will be held, on December 12th 2017, in Belfort, FRANCE in connection with the Vehicle Power Propulsion Conference (http://www.vppc2017.org/). The aim of this workshop is to provide a forum for researchers and industrials around topics such as fuel cell degradation mechanisms, prognostics and control related to fuel cell systems for transport applications.
The workshop will follow the following program:
09:00 – 9:50 GEA SA, Switzerland, Cities of tomorrow: what kind of solutions for the first and last mile?
10:20 – 11:00 PSA, France, Next Generation of Electrified Vehicles
11:00 – 11:40 DOE, USA, Hydrogen and fuel cell activities for transportation applications
13:40 – 14:35 Giantleap, I. Halvorsen, R. Petrone, G. Radica, “Diagnostics, Prognostics and Control models for bus fuel cell systems”
14:35 – 15:10 Giantleap, H. Fischer, “Fuel Cell Systems for FCE buses”
15:30 – 15:55 Giantleap, R. Bouwman, “Range Extender for Electrical Citybus”
15:55 – 16:30 NewBusFuel, E. Boyd, “Hydrogen fuel production and dispensation costs for fuel cell bus operators”
16:30 – 17:05 High V.Lo City, V. Willmann, “Towards zero emission public transports with fuel cell electric buses”
Please register if you intend to join. Participation is free of charge.